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Declaration of intent
My main influence as an artist is nature and human behavior, my environment is my greatest teacher and my intention is to communicate my reflections through the sensitivity that art can facilitate for me.
I understand the world as a place worthy of caring for and respecting. I understand human beings as beings who need to learn to be kind to the world and to each other, despite differences of opinion.
I'm interested in conveying a vision where the injustices of the world serve as a warning, an opportunity to change the direction of things.
My usual language is ceramics and textiles. Through these disciplines, once considered minor works, I aim to highlight them naturally and make them part of contemporary conceptual art.
My work is to understand nature and emotions as a place that unites all human beings, and in this way, we stop feeling as if we're not from a single place. We leave aside differences, borders, and inequality.
I feel special when I create pieces of art. It's such a pleasurable journey. Creation involves moments of sacrifice and exploration. Many times, they are challenges that make you grow and gain new experiences. You learn as you go.
My study and love for sewing, ceramics, design and drawing define me as an artist and a person.
I believe in coherence between personal and professional life; it is essential to live in harmony.
Fernanda J. Carregado
Previous works
"The Starlings' Dinner"
An exhibition composed of paired ceramic pieces with textile details depicting a dinner, a starling dance, and spectators. The artist presents an installation that demonstrates the celebration of the pause that exists during change. The location, the dinner, and the time are not random, as they aim to find a moment of rejoicing at the end of the day to cherish the pause, associating it with reflection and the assessment of the damage that follows many changes. 
Follow the clay
This proposal was made with the intention of contributing to the collective LA REUNIÓN, an idea designed so that the visitor can enjoy and understand that our path is the CLAY.
Artistic installation made of raw red clay, as a symbol of renewal and change, for its ability to start over.
August 2024, Cultural Center "El Convento" Gaucín.
Bird in its nest
A tribute to the birds who work painstakingly to build their nests , many of which are true works of art. The only tool birds use to build their nests is their beaks. They are complex yet simple structures, which they need to survive and feed.
Nature is always the teacher.
Ceramic and textile sculpture
2024
Video: The light of Gaucín
Three
They say we all have three sides. One is the one we show to the world. The second side we only show to those closest to us, and the last side we never show to anyone.
Ceramic sculpture with treated paper, embroidery and painting.
Year 2024
Emotional training
Recycled denim punching bag, decorated with daisies and hand-embroidered. Embrace the moments of adversity that are rivers of growth. Always daisies. Measurements: 75x25 cm
2024 Artist Residency. The Mobile Home, Algodonales.
Visual Imbalance
Balance determines the place each element should occupy for a design, composition, or space to make visual sense. The lack of balance creates tension and visual chaos, but sometimes what you don't achieve also counts. Another parody of visual perception and its laws. Unretouched digital photography. Shoes modified with ceramics and textiles.
Year 2023
Life in Pieces
Give me time and I'll build a life
Each ceramic piece is made by hand without any type of mold, being unique among them as it happens in life itself, a set of singular and extraordinary experiences that do not need to be the same to share spaces.
Year 2023
philanthropic and cultural fight against breast cancer
Simple thinking
It's about not looking for anything that nature doesn't look for.
Sculptural ceramic vase embroidered with paint and natural elements
Year 2023
Short film about the work:
Short: Daisies
Poem
Pieces containing Neruda's poems, embroidered papers, ropes, fabrics, threads, ceramic rings, watercolors and the will to be unique and unparalleled.
Year 2023
The Queen of Sheba
I like to put things on my head, if it's not a hat it's a sculpture and if not a lamp or even an idea.
Self-portrait of book intervention with ceramics
Year 2023
Caretarte
Mask intervened in ceramic, fabric and embroidered paper
We cannot forget what happened. This is my way of reflecting on it, and I leave it up to the viewer's interpretation. March 14, 2020, the historic global lockdown.
Emotions
Human emotions are crazy, we have no choice but to experience each one of them.
Bust intervened with ceramics and hand-embroidered textiles
Year 2022
There's a struggle of emotions because what you feel and what you think don't match. This disrupts your peace of mind, and you expect to do your best, even though sometimes you can't do anything and you have to let yourself go.
Have you ever felt like straightening a painting or rearranging something to feel better? If so, you can empathize with this work, which attempts to parody visual perception and its laws.
You decide if you want to live in a hostile world or prefer to look with love at the details it gives us.
A clear example of "recreating" in idealism and falling in love with a poetic idea, even if it's not functional. The very life of aesthetes and poets, without any remedy.
